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Walk into almost any teaching program and you will hear a version of the same instruction: learn the continental grip first, or you will never serve, volley, or slice the way you should.
Almost every player who has been told to switch grips arrives at the same complaint: the continental grip feels wrong. The racquet face points at the sky. The ball sails long on a groundstroke.
The standard locker-room advice is simple: put a vibration dampener on your strings and your racquet will feel softer, sound cleaner, and treat your arm more kindly.
The between-the-legs shot gets the highlight reel and the slow-motion replay and the commentator who forgets words for a second. It is the tennis shot everyone clips.
You will get worse before you get better. That is the part nobody warns you about, and it is the most useful thing we can tell you about the continental grip: the discomfort is not a sign you are…
In the first round at Wimbledon in 2010, John Isner hit 113 aces in a single match. Mahut hit 103. The match ran 11 hours and 5 minutes across three days and finished 70-68 in the fifth set.
Three hundred ninety-five grams per shoe, in a US men's 10.5. That is the first number we wrote down when the Adidas SoleCourt Boost came out of the box on the scale, and it is the number we kept…
A court shoe lives or dies in about 300 milliseconds — the time it takes a foot to land, load, roll, and push off again, several thousand times across a single match.
Last month, on a hardcourt in still air, we hit forty forehands with the same racquet, the same Luxilon ALU Power at 52 lb, and changed only one thing between blocks of ten: the dampener wedged…
There is a sentence you will hear in nearly every conversation about American tennis history: that the United States produced an unbroken line of champions until the 1990s, and then the well went dry.…